Smart Service World Joint Project "Glass@Service"

Overall objectives

• Integration of interactive Smart Glasses for the factory of the future
  • Additions/replacement of workplace HMI by hands-free augmented-reality (AR) Smart Glasses
      • As an example at workplaces for visual inspection
      • Use by operators, technicians, ....
      • 8h/layer
  • Involvement into local process IT
• Higher productivity
• Higher flexibility, diversity of editable processes
• Higher quality, error reduction/-prevention by AR technology
• Improved training
• User acceptance, ergonomics
• Employee motivation: enjoy working with innovative work equipment

Service (use-cases)

• Support of quality assurance and repair processes via eye-controlled, hands-free user interaction: Operation and information in the same line of sight - no shift of the focus of attention
• Examples of new mobile use-cases ( as well stationary usable):
  1. AR-supported optical inspection of electronic flat modules,
  2. AR-supported, quality assurance in commissioning/logistics
• Wide spectrum of applications by flexible app integration
• Focus on ergonomics to ensure safety of practicability

Software and IT infrastructure

• Real Augmented Reality (and not "Augmented Video")
• Innovative user interaction by gestures and eye movements
• Sufficient limitation of Smart Glass functionality and interaction for safe use in the company network with transferability of these data security functions on standard Android Wearables

Hardware (Data Glasses)

• Bi-directional image sensor in the Smart Glass enables simultaneous image reproduction and recording
• AR-HMD calibration in combination with Eye-Tracking enables tracking view control mode
• Maximized battery life by low-power display and system electronics as well as optically efficient near-to-eye optics
• Integrated zoom function (optics)
• Hand and object tracking with 3D depth sensor
• Sufficiently large field of view, > 25°